Lemon (2017)
“I booked a thing.” Some movies intentionally take us off the beaten path to ill-effect, giving us a bumpy ride without anything meaningful to really latch onto. Take the […]
Tag Archives: Drama
It Comes at Night (2017)
“Do you have any idea what’s going on out there?” It Comes at Night drills itself into your psyche with a rusty, diseased tip, unfolding in the likeness of a great Shakespearean […]
The Hero (2017)
“Movies are other people’s dreams.” Whether it be male or female (but definitely more unusual for women), roles for actors well past the twilight of their youth come too few […]
Megan Leavey (2017)
“Everything you feel goes down leash.” The best films set during the war in Iraq are not exclusively about war. The Hurt Locker – a rightful Best Picture winner – deals with […]
The Lobster (2016)
“Have you ever been on your own before?” It’s a bit hilarious to imagine what it’d have been like to be a fly on the wall during The Lobster’s big pitch to […]
The Circle (2017)
“Do you think you do better or worse when you are being watched?” Not all stories require or need happy endings. Memories of messages seem to linger longer when drenched […]
Baywatch (2017)
“Stuck junk is stuck junk.” You probably shouldn’t see this movie if you’re easily turned off by a bounty of cleavage or an onslaught of penis jokes; the film’s focus on […]
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)
“Something doesn’t smell right.” The brash, combative, utterly unfunny King Arthur: Legend of the Sword reads as the embodiment of the above quote. It’s the crimson tainted hunk of beef […]
The Wall (2017)
“I’m scared of what’s behind it.” With the release of Phone Booth back in 2002, Grand Piano in 2013, and now The Wall, we have an exceptional trifecta of films which equate to adult nightmares. These […]
Gifted (2017)
“She doesn’t know how to be a kid.” Gifted is a tiny movie about a lot of big things: finding balance in life, the rigors of parenting, differing from the crowd, […]
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